Serena Williams: "I'm bootylicious"
It's soooooo good to have newly-crowned Australian Open champ Serena Williams back at the top of the tennis world after two years of limited play. She was asked about her fitness after her win over Maria Sharapova and, thank God, spoke her mind: "I'm definitely in better shape than I get credit for. Just because I have large bosoms and I have a big ass. I swear my waist is 29-30 inches. I swear I have the smallest waist. And just because I have those two 'assets' it looks like I'm not fit. I was just in the locker room staring at my body and I'm like, 'Am I not fit? Am I really not fit? Or is it just because I have all these extra assets that I look not fit.' I think if I were not to eat for two years I still wouldn't be a size 2. No matter how slim I am, I always have this [points] and that [points]. We're living in a Mary-Kate Olsen world. I'm just not built that way. I'm bootylicious and that's how it's always going to be."
Greg Hernandez has covered the entertainment industry for the Daily
News since 2001. He's considered a bit odd by some for his obsession
with box office numbers, has been known to camp out near the kitchen
at premieres for first crack at the hors d'oeurves, and Greg's never
seen a red carpet he didn't want to stroll down.
Comments
Here's hoping her comments and those of Tyra Banks get more widespread media coverage. It's about time young girls get better body image role models from Hollywood than Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton.
Posted by: RJ | February 1, 2007 10:46 PM